Nawras launches Ramadan offers

MUSCAT — Nawras customers who have a way with words need no longer hold back because of call tariffs. Communications provider Nawras today announced another first for Oman, with the launch of its latest offer. During the holy month of Ramadan, all Nawras customers will be able to call a Nawras number they choose, all day from 5am until 5pm for a one-off daily fee of only RO2. Once the RO2 fee is paid for the day, all calls to the chosen Nawras number will be free until 5pm. Aziz Al Harrasi, consumer segment manager, said, “This is a great offer for Nawras customers. To be able to call a friend or family member on the Nawras network for upto 12 hours a day for only RO2 is incredible. For customers with a lot to say, this would equate to only 2.8bz per minute!” Ajel postpaid customers simply need to send a free SMS to 90606, listing the specific Nawras number they want to call as part of the offer. Mousbak prepaid customers can dial *141# followed by language, tariff options, F&F, and then select the Ramadan offer from the available bundles. Customers will receive an SMS message to confirm that the number they have selected has been set up correctly and that the RO2 fee has been charged. Once confirmation has been received, customers will be able to make calls to their selected number without any additional cost, until that day’s subscription ends at 5pm. The offer is limited to one Nawras number per customer per day. However, customers may select a different number to call on each day. Early birds This offer is limited to the first few thousand Nawras customers who subscribe each day. Once the daily subscription limit has been reached on a particular day, no new requests will be successful. Customers who send a subscription request outside the hours of the promotion (after 5pm and before 5am each day) will be added to the subscription requests for the following day. Nawras has also reduced the subscription prices of two of its popular services — Prayer Time SMS, and Athkar SMS and MMS. For a monthly fee of 250bz, Nawras customers can receive a daily SMS giving the prayer time schedule for any key city in the GCC. To get started, customers must send a free SMS with the keyword Prayer, followed by a space and the city to 90900. For example, one could send Prayer Muscat or Prayer Mecca SMSes. A response will immediately confirm the details of the service. Prayer time messages will be delivered after the last prayer of Isha each day, showing the city name, the following day’s date and the applicable time of Fajar, Shrooq, Dhuhur, Asur, Maghrib and Isha. The Athkar service — which provides ideas for prayers — is available in Arabic in both text (SMS) and multimedia including sound (MMS). To subscribe to the Athkar SMS service, customers can send ‘9’ to 90990; to subscribe to the MMS service send ‘99’ to 90990. During the holy month, Nawras staff will embark on the 5th Goodwill Journey.